George F. Hammond

George Francis Hammond (November 26, 1855 – April 26, 1938) was an architect in Cleveland, Ohio who designed commercial buildings, hotels, schools, churches, residences, and the plans for Kent State University's layout and original buildings. His work is mostly Neoclassical architecture, including in the Beaux Arts Architecture style, and includes an example of Egyptian Revival architecture in the basement foyer of the Hollenden Hotel.

Hammond was born in the Roxbury section of Boston, Massachusetts to George and Cornelia Johnson Hammond. He painted before becoming a professional architect and attended the Massachusetts Normal Art School. He studied with William R. Ware at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, founder of the first American curriculum based on the Beaux-Arts system of architectural training.

In 1876, Hammond worked as a draftsman in the office of William G. Preston and in the office of William Ware in Boston. He began independent work in 1878 and became part of the Koehler & Hammond firm for a year, bringing him to Cleveland in 1885 to work on the Hollenden Hotel. He moved to Cleveland in 1886. He was active in Cleveland until 1926. Hammond lived at 1863 Caldwell Road in Cleveland Heights.

He designed hospitals, schools, factories, and power buildings in Chicago, Kansas City, New Orleans, Toronto, and Montreal. Hammond's home in Cleveland Heights is "a fine Colonial Revival residence". Hammond designed several suburban homes, especially in the Clifton Park area of Lakewood and published A Treatise on Hospital and Asylum Construction in 1891.

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